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The Works of Richard Savage

... With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, by Samuel Johnson. A New Edition
Savage, Richard

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VOL. I.
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SIR THOMAS OVERBURY.
  
[dedication]
  
PROLOGUE
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SIR THOMAS OVERBURY.
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ACT V.
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EPILOGUE.
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VOL. II.
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THE WANDERER:
  
[dedication]
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THE WANDERER.
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CANTO I.
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CANTO II.
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CANTO III
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CANTO IV.
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CANTO V.
  
THE BASTARD:
  
VERSES OCCASIONED BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LADY VISCOUNTESS TYRCONNEL'S RECOVERY AT BATH.
  
AN EPISTLE TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR ROBERT WALPOLE.
  
THE PROGRESS OF A DIVINE:
  
OF PUBLIC SPIRIT IN REGARD TO PUBLIC WORKS:
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POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.
  
TO MR. JOHN DYER, A PAINTER,
  
VERSES SENT TO AARON HILL, ESQ.
  
PROLOGUE SPOKEN AT THE REVIVAL OF SHAKESPEARE'S KING HENRY VI.
  
THE ANIMALCULE.
  
TO MRS. ELIZA HAYWOOD,
  
AN APOLOGY TO BRILLANTE,
  
An EPISTLE TO MRS. OLDFIELD, OF THE THEATRE-ROYAL.
  
VERSES, OCCASIONED BY READING MR. AARON HILL'S POEM CALLED GIDEON.
  
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE BESSY, COUNTESS OF ROCHFORD,
  
TO THE EXCELLENT MIRANDA, CONSORT OF AARON HILL, ESQ.
  
VERSES TO A YOUNG LADY.
  
THE GENTLEMAN.
  
CHARACTER OF THE REV. JAMES FOSTER.
  
THE POET'S DEPENDANCE ON A STATESMAN.
  
AN EPISTLE TO DAMON AND DELIA.
  
TO MISS M--- H---,
  
ON THE RECOVERY OF A LADY OF QUALITY FROM THE SMALL-POX.
  
THE FRIEND.
  
AN EPISTLE TO MR. JOHN DYER, AUTHOR OF GRONGAR-HILL,
  
VERSES. OCCASIONED BY THE VICE-PRINCIPAL OF ST. MARY-HALL, OXFORD,
  
FULVIA.
  
EPITAPH ON A YOUNG LADY.
  
THE GENIUS OF LIBERTY.
  
E GRÆCO RUF.
  
THE EMPLOYMENT OF BEAUTY.
  
VERSES SENT TO MRS. BRIDGET JONES,
  
ON FALSE HISTORIANS:
  
A CHARACTER.
  
EPITAPH ON MRS. JONES,
  
VALENTINE'S DAY.
  
TO JOHN POWELL, ESQ. BARRISTER AT LAW.
  
THE VOLUNTEER LAUREAT.
  
THE VOLUNTEER LAUREAT.
  
THE VOLUNTEER LAUREAT.
  
THE VOLUNTEER LAUREAT.
  
THE VOLUNTEER LAUREAT.
  
THE VOLUNTEER LAUREAT.
  
LONDON AND BRISTOL DELINEATED.

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VERSES TO A YOUNG LADY.

Polly, from me, tho' now a love-sick youth,
Nay, tho' a poet, hear the voice of truth!
Polly, you're not a beauty, yet you're pretty;
So grave, yet gay; so silly, yet so witty;
A heart of softness, yet a tongue of satire;
You've cruelty, yet, e'en with that, good-nature:
Now you are free, and now reserv'd awhile;
Now a forc'd frown betrays a willing smile.
Reproach'd for absence, yet your sight deny'd;
My tongue you silence, yet my silence chide.
How would you praise me, shou'd your sex defame!
Yet, shou'd they praise, grow jealous, and exclaim.
If I despair, with some kind look you bless;
But if I hope, at once all hope suppress.
You scorn; yet shou'd my passion change or fail.
Too late you'd whimper out a softer tale.
You love; yet from your lover's wish retire;
Doubt, yet discern; deny, and yet desire.
Such, Polly, are your sex—part truth, part fiction,
Some thought, much whim, and all a contradiction.
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